Happy Spring Break!

 A look at our learning...

Fundations: we continued our work on digraphs and fluently reading sentences.  We are learning that when we read, we want to sound like we do when we talk and not like robots (word by word).  

Shared Reading: we read the Big Books She Will Be and Muscles to help us with our new spelling words of the week.  One book is fiction and one non-fiction and we discussed the differences between genres. 

New spelling words after Spring Break

you

said (review word due to many still missing it on weekly tests)

Writing: they are doing a great job on the opinion unit of study.  This week we learned different ways we can start our opinion pieces and that we don't need to always start with "I like..."  Check out the photo below for some of the ways we can start an opinion piece.  This week we wrote about our favorite special and 3 reasons why and our favorite place between Tiger Bounce and Sky Zone and 3 reasons why. 

Math: we are finishing up unit 6 in math.  This week we learned a new game called Hiding Bears that helped us make various combinations of 10, played another game called Growing and Disappearing Train that focuses on addition and subtraction, and a sorting game where we had to think about attributes of various shapes.  

Counselor: this week they talked about careers and needs vs. wants.  This is a tricky one for Kindergarteners, but a great one! They may think they need toys, but really it's a want.  Also a great lesson about being grateful and appreciative for what they do have. 

Rock Bridge High School Show Choir: on Thursday, K-2 students were fortunate enough to watch an amazing performance put on by the Rock Bridge High School Show Choir. There were several former Beulah students who performed!  It was so good!  I will post more photos and a video on the class Facebook page. 

St. Patrick's Day: that sneaky leprechaun sure got us good!  I thought we might be safe with St. Patrick's Day falling on a Sunday, but nope!  Check out the mess he made in the classroom while we were at recess! I also posted a video of their reactions on our class Facebook page earlier in the week.  Luckily, he dropped his bucket of gold and we were all able to take home a few pieces!  He also left us some notes!  Turns out, he is friends with Jack our Elf on the Shelf!  What?! 

I sure do love this magic of Kindergarten!  Moments like this are why I'm a Kindergarten teacher.  They may not remember what specific letters, words or numbers they learned in Kindergarten, but they will remember special moments like this, 100th day, field trips, playing in the snow on a random day, etc.  

Fun at school

Happy St. Patrick's Day

A look at our learning...

 Fundations: we started unit 4 this week, which will focus on diagraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, ck), learning more trick words (words that can't be sounded out) and reading sentences fluently. Check your parent packet for trick word flash cards to use at home.  

In the photos below we are being diagraph detectives and writing down the words we see that have diagraphs in them. 

Shared Reading/Spelling: we read the Big Books Get In and Games We Play.  Both books featured our spelling words of the week.  I love this time of year because the students are really becoming readers and using more strategies when they come to an unknown word.  

Next week's spelling words:

be

me

Writing Workshop: we continued our opinion writing unit this week.  There are so many fun books that tie in with this unit of study.  This week we read the book I wanna iguana, about a little boy and his mother writing letters back and forth about why the boy should or should not get a pet iguana.  In the end, he was able to convince his mother to let him have a pet iguana.  We shared our own opinions about a pet we would like to have and wrote our own letters about why we think our parents should let us get that pet! 

We also spent time responding to various prompts and writing our opinion about those prompts: favorite food and why, favorite season and why and if they could visit any place where would it be and why.  We are working on telling 2-3 reasons why to support their opinion.  

Math: this week we worked on subtraction through various games and activities, played an attribute game with shapes and sorting. 

Planetarium: we had so much fun visiting the Rock Bridge High School Planetarium with Mrs. Croom's class on Tuesday.  We learned about stars, how the sun is a star and constellations, specifically Orion.  We are so lucky to have this in CPS! More photos posted on our class Facebook page. 

Shakespeare's Pizza Fundraiser Pick-up: BEU families who participated, your pizzas will be ready on Wednesday, March 20th from 5-6 p.m.  It is imperative that this time is prioritized (if you can't make it, plan for someone else to pick up your order) as your pizzas need to stay frozen and Shakespeare's can't hold them.  Prizes will also be available at that time. If you are able to volunteer to help hand out pizzas, please add your name to the sign-up linked here.  

Attendance: (sharing from the office) Our goal at Beulah Ralph is to have at least 90% of our students reach a 90% attendance rate or above by the end of the year.  Right now, we're the lowest we've been besides COVID year.  Out of CPS's elementary schools, we are currently in 7th place for attendance ratings, but finished last year in 2nd place.  There is still time to bring us up before summer! Let's do this!  Better attendance gives our students more time to soak up what wonderful educators are teaching them! 

(from me)  Notice Kindergarten, we are the lowest in the school.  While we always want them to stay home when sick (and thank you for keeping them home during that time), they need to be at school at all other times.  

Tardies and picking them up early affect their attendance as well, even if just a few minutes late to school or picked up early.  We are learning every minute of the day! Even play time is learning and SO important in Kindergarten.  

Thank you for helping raise our percentage during this last trimester of school. 

Reading Bingo Winner: yay Teddy! He was one of the school wide winners to win a free book for completing his reading bingo board during Reading Week last week!  So proud of everyone who completed all challenges! 

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